Please
tell me about any mistakes you spot or any suggestions or
improvements you have. My email address is axelboldt@yahoo.com.

If you are new to Linux and anything in the help texts is unclear to you,
please let me know. This thing is for you.

Feel free to use these help texts for your own configuration tools. I
have written a rather primitive drop-in replacements for the standard
configuration script Configure which uses these help texts during the "make
config" stage. Since the
configuration process and the directory layout has slightly changed
under 1.3, there are now two versions of the help texts and
configuration scripts:

Installing the new Configure script for kernel versions 1.2.x
To install the new configuration script and the help texts, first
rename the old script:

You can now configure the kernel as before with make
config; if you answer one of the configuration questions with
?, you'll get help about that particular option.

Installing the new Configure script for kernel versions 1.3.x with
x>46 and versions 2.0.0 and above
Nothing has to be done here -- both the help texts and the Configure
script replacement made it into the official kernel source. If you answer a
question during the make config process with
?, you'll get help for that particular option. X users
will want to use
make xconfig instead. Another option is the super cool
text based menu directed configuration tool; just say make
menuconfig and follow your nose. The help texts are
automatically used by that script as well.